Shingle



A. J. HAUBER.

SHINGLE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. I0. I922.

Patented Oct. 31, 1922.

(d J0 HCZMZYWI Patented Oct. 31., 1922.

ALOIS J. HAUBER, OF ST. MARYS, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHINGLE.

Application filed April 10,

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALois J. HAUBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at St. Marys, in the county of Elk and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shingles: and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it a-ppertains to make and use the same.

The present invention relates to improvements in shingles and to roofs made up therefrom and it is my aim and object to produce a construction of shingle which will cause the interlocking of the various parts of a roof in such a. way as to preserve the relation between the various shingles and to avoid the curling of the lower edges, and in general to require the shingle to lie in. close contact with the under portions of the roof and with subjacent shingles to the end that a substantially .leak proof roof of long life may result.

Other objects of the invention are to produce a shingle that is inexpensive to manufacture, that is simple in construction and affords easy assembly of theshingles on the roof.

Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views.

Fig. 1 is a fragmentary perspective view of a roof composed of shingles constructed according to the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the improved shingles;

Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section through a portion. of the roof;

Fig. 4: is a fragmentary plan view of the roof with one of the shingles partly broken away; and,

' Fig. 5 is a section taken on the line 5-5 in Fig. 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, wherein only a single embodiment of the invention is shown, 1 designates the improved shingle which may consist of the usual asphaltic composition, metal or other material, the shingle being illustrated as substantially rectangular in accordance with 1922. Serial No. 551,169.

the general practice to make shingles conform to this standard outline, although it will be understood that the shape of the shingle may be varied as desired.

In. accordance with the invention, one corner of the shingle is appropriated to form a flap 2 adapted to be bent under the body portion of the shingle 1 and havingslots 3 and 4 made at its side portions and substantially coincident with the line of flexure or hinging. The two slots 3 and -.t leave an intermediate web 5 for connecting the tab 1 with the shingle body 1 and this reduced web, while effectively holding the tab to the shingle, affords a pliable hinge joint to enable the ready folding under of the tab in the manner indicated in Fig. 3. The shingles where made of asphaltic material may be heated slightly prior to bending the tab to avoid the cracking of the material.

The shingles are laid diagonally in a roof structure indicated in Figs. 1 and l and the edges 6 and T of the tab 2 when thus bent beneath the shingle 1 are adapted to lie in contact with the diagonally convergent edges 8 and 9 of similar lateralli adjoining shingles 10 and 11, while the tab 2 itself rests directly upon the upper face of the next lowest shingle 12. The edges 8 and 9 of the laterally adjoining shingles 1,0 and 1]. are received directly in the slots 3 and at of the shingle 1 so that the lateral wings or projecting parts 13 and 11 of the tab 2 created by the formation of the slots are received under the lateral edge portions of the shingles 10 and 11. This avoids curling of the shingle 1 and its superposition upon the adjacent corners of the shingles 10 and 11 also avoids any curling of these corners.

Moreover, the tab 2 forms a support for the lower portion of the shingle 1 and fills up the gap which would otherwise be left beneath the corner portions of the shingles. By use of this tab, the lower corners and each side corner of each shingle is carefully anchored against curling or tending to curve outwardly from the roof structure or from the original position in which the shingles were laid and. as a consequence, leaky crevices are not apt to occur and a substantially leak proof roof is secured.

The shingles 15 at the ends of the roof may be simply cut off with shears to match the end of the building, but the shingles along the bottom portion of the roof are preferably severed along lines parallel with a diagonal line and below such diagonal line, and a suitable basal portion of the triangular figure thus left is folded under the remaining portion as indicated at 16. Due to the width of the base tongues 17 and 18 will project outwardly beyond the side edges and these tongues are adapted to receive the tabs 2 of intermediate shingles. The projecting parts 13 and 14 rest upon the tongues 17 and 18 and the slots 3 and 4c are received within the edges of such triangular bottom shingles. The doubling under provides a thickened edge for the shingle roof and-prevents the backing of water up underneath from a gutter or the like.

From the foregoing it will be appreciated that an accurate interlocking of the shingles in a roof structure is secured and that it is possible to lay the shingles in one or more thicknesses, by reason of the fact that the shingles may be slid in the grooves 3 and 4 and thus provide a greater or less surface exposure for each shingle.

A roof of the character proposed may be placed over other roofs without removing such roofs and when in place will cover metal, such as nails and will avoid rustand deterioration through exposure to other parts. The shingles may be used in both one or two ply roofs, making it comparatively easy to determine the cost of the roof to the consumer.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described embodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claims.

What is claimed is:

1. A roof composed of shingles having corner portions providing hinged flaps and having slotted edges along the line of the hinge, said shingles interlocking within the slots of adjacent shingles, the end shingles of the roof having their ends separated and turned under and providing projecting tongues, the flaps of adjacent shingles lying on said projecting tongues, substantially as described.

2. A roof composed of shingles having flaps bent thereunder with slots at the sides of the flaps providing projecting portions on the flaps, said portions extending beneath the edges of laterally adjoining flaps,

the shingles at 'the edges of the roof having portions thereof turned under and extending beyond the sides of the shingles, the projecting portlons of the flaps of intermediate shingles lying upon such projecting portions of the last named shingles and fitting beneath the body portions of the last mentioned shingles, the edges of such last mentioned shingles fitting in the slots in the intermediate shingles, substantially as described.

ALOIS J. HAUBER. 

